Imperial War Graves Commission

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 51, 1 July 1932, Page 27

Imperial War Graves Commission

N.Z.’s Representative to Speak from 2ZW |

Wak activities in the Great War did not cease with the. cessation of active fighting in 1918. Immediately peace was declared various commissions were set up to attend the work that could be commenced only when fighting had ceased. . One such commission set:.up by

the British Empire was an Imperial War Graves Com-. mission, a body appointed to see: that the war dead ‘were honoured and remembered by suitable . monuments given, where possible, ‘to each individual. New

Zealand, the Dominion that gave so ‘largely of its men,’ was given a representative .on this Commission, Liéu- | tenant A. W. Mil- . denhall.. Lieutenant Mildenhall, served on the Impérial War Graves Commission from ‘November, 1919. For’ five years he was on ‘the Galli‘poli Peninsula, and here he superintended the con« struction of 31 rn

war cemeteries.. He was in charge also-of the building of New Zealand’s War Memorial at Chunuk Bair. In 1924 he was transferred to France and. Belgium, where he supervised the construction of war cemeteries in those areas that are so well remembered by New Zealand returned soldiers.

Commencing on Saturday evening, July 2, 1932 at approximately 7.30 p.m.. Lieutenant Mildenhall will talk:over 2ZW (1120 kiloeycles), Wellington, giving four talks on that and the three following Saturdays,

-He will speal: of the work that was done by the Commission of which he has been New Zealand’s representative for so many years.: Many listeners have a deep personal interest in the war graves, and any correspondence sent to Lieutenant Mildenhall care of "The Radio Record" will be itnrmediately delivered.